LAGOS MARC 25H (NEWSRANGERS)-Four members of an Iowa family were found dead in Mexico after they were reported missing just after midnight Friday. The bodies of Kevin Wayne Sharp, 41; his wife, Amy Marie Sharp, 38; Sterling Wayne Sharp, 12; and Adrianna Marie Sharp, 7, were found at the condominium where they were staying in…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Charging ahead with the dramatic remaking of his White House, President Donald Trump said Thursday he would replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, a foreign policy hawk entering a White House facing key decisions on Iran and North Korea. After weeks of speculation about McMaster’s…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that his company “made mistakes” in protecting user data obtained by Cambridge Analytica, but said steps already taken and new policies unveiled Wednesday would prevent developers from misappropriating such information in the future. Part regret, part explanation and part announcement of strategies to come, Zuckerberg’s first…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman walking across an Arizona road was hit and killed by a self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. on Sunday — probably the first pedestrian fatality for the fast-growing movement toward driverless vehicles. Tempe police said Elaine Herzberg, 49, was struck by an Uber test vehicle operating in autonomous mode. In…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerian students have been arrested with 500 grams of shabu and counterfeit drugs amounting to P2.5 million (about N48m), following an entrapment operation in Bacoor, Cavite, on Friday. According to ABS, the suspects Agu Austin Chukwuebuka and Nkwocha Chimaobi were arrested after they sold 11 sachets of suspected shabu stashed in…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerians who were reportedly involved in the cult clash that led to the murder of a student identified as Hillary, during an election, on Friday, at Chattarpur, New Delhi, India, have been arrested. .The suspects, identified as Uche I. Victor and E.K. Chuku, were arrested by the Kurlikot Police near the…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, tweeting this morning that he plans to replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Trump asked Tillerson to step aside Friday, a senior White House official told ABC News today, but the State Department says Trump never spoke to Tillerson about the…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A total of 49 people have been killed in a Flight BS211 crash at Nepal’s Kathmandu airport. There were 71 passengers and crew on board of the plane. Reports say rescuers pulled bodies from the charred wreckage of the plane, operated by Bangladeshi airline US-Bangla, after a raging fire was put out….
